Olympic history of Jordan

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Ahmad Abughaush, Olympic Champion 2016

Jordan , whose NOK , al-Ladschna al-ulimbiyya al-urdunniyya , was founded in 1957 andrecognizedby the IOC in1963, has participated in the Summer Olympics since 1980. So far, no athletes have been sent to the Winter Games. Young athletes have taken part in both of the youth summer games that have been held so far.

Overview

Summer games

Haya bint al-Hussein

Jordan's first Olympic team consisted of four sport shooters in 1980. At the following summer games, Jordanian athletes competed in athletics and fencing (since 1984), boxing, wrestling, archery and table tennis (since 1988), swimming (since 1996), taekwondo and horse riding (since 2000) as well as in judo and triathlon (since 2016).

The first Olympians in Jordan were the two trap shooters Mohamed Issa Shahin and Nader George Shalhoub on July 20, 1980. On August 8, 1984, the athlete Raida Abdallah Bader became the first woman from Jordan to take part in the Olympic Games.

In Sydney 2000, the show jumper Haya bint al-Hussein, a daughter of the Jordanian King Hussein I , who died the year before, took part. The first sporting successes came in 2004 in Taekwondo. In the heavyweight division, Ibrahim Kamal had advanced to the semi-finals. Against the Greek Alexandros Nikolaidis he lost 3: 6 on points. He also lost the battle for bronze against the French Pascal Gentil on points.

In the 2016 tournament in Rio de Janeiro, the featherweight Ahmad Abughaush became the first Jordanian medalist and Olympic champion in his country after winning points over the Russian Alexei Denissenko .

Youth games

Six young athletes, four boys and two girls, competed in badminton, gymnastics, swimming and taekwondo at the first 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore . Two medals could be won in Taekwondo. In the boys 'category, Yazan Alsadeq won bronze in the super heavyweight division, in the girls' category Dana Touran won silver in the featherweight division.

In 2014 in Nanjing , six athletes, two boys and four girls, took part. They competed in fencing, swimming, gymnastics and taekwondo. Medals could not be won.

IOC members

Jordan currently has one IOC member. In 2010, Faisal bin Al Hussein , second son of the late King Hussein I, was elected an IOC member. He is a member of the Commission for Public Relations and Social Development and the Coordination Commission for the 32nd Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2020.

Overview of the participants

Summer games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports												Medals				rank
	total	Men	Women																	Total
1896-1976	not participated
1980	4th	4th	0		4th
1984	13	12	1	Mourad Barakat	7th	5	1
1988	7th	5	2	Mouneir Al-Masri			1	2	2	1	1
1992	8th	8th	0	Fakhredin Fouad	1	2					1
1996	5	3	2	Walid Al-Awazem	1	2						2
2000	8th	4th	4th	Haya bint al-Hussein	1	2					1	2	1	1
2004	8th	4th	4th	Khalil Al-Hanahneh		2					1	2	2	1
2008	7th	3	4th	Zaina Schaban		2					1	2	1	1
2012	9	8th	1	Nadin Dawani		2		1				2	3	1
2016	8th	5	4th	Hussein Ishaish		1		2				2	1		1	1	1			1	54
total																	1	0	0	1	107

Winter games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports	Medals
	total	m	w						total	rank
1924-2018	not participated
total						0	0	0	0	-

Medalist

Gold medals

Surname	Games	sport	discipline
Ahmad Abughaush	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Taekwondo	Feather weight (up to 68 kg)

Silver medals

So far (as of 2017) no medal winners

Bronze medals

So far (as of 2017) no medal winners

Medals by sport

sport	gold	silver	bronze	total
Taekwondo	1	0	0	1
total	1	0	0	1

Web links

• Jordan in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Jordan on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Website of the Jordanian NOK